Attitudes about women take bad path

11:12 PM,
Sep. 2, 2013

Verna Wyatt

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Verna Wyatt

In August, two Steubenville, Ohio, high-school football players were convicted of raping an intoxicated, unconscious 16-year-old girl at a party. The star football players videotaped the rape, and later disseminated it, bragging about their conquest in hundreds of texts, which is how the victim learned she had been raped.

The investigation uncovered disturbing facts. Numerous students witnessed the rape, and their attitude was "no big deal." One boy at the party offered $3 for anyone to urinate on the victim. (Just a joke, he said on the witness stand.) Another boy, concerned that a ...